Thanks guys. This has been a rough month, no doubt about it. The pain running through my hand, arms and shoulder has meant the double whammy of no playing and no building for the time being. I am truly lucky though - this could have been an infinitely worse situation by just a matter of inches. The medications do give me just a little bit of pain-free time each day which I can use to pound out emails and maybe noodle around a bit, but that's really all.
In answer to the question about the panels, these boards are bookmatched though I did not go to the trouble of lining up the grain for the photo (not enough energy for that!). What I will probably do is make bookmatched veneers from each of the panels in which case I can probably yield about 6 to 8 matching tops.
